Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Migrated to Postgres! - 348 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #21 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1956 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #41 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1708 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 18
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #653 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #597 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2129 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #905 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #649 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1654 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #759 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3675 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 1
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